Improvement in lint-room floors



J. N. STITT. Lint- Room Floor.

PafentedJuly 20,1875.

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IMPROVEMENT IN LlNT-ROOM FLOORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 165,889, dated July 20, 1875; application filed May 28, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN N. STITT, of Sardis, Panola county, Mississippi, have invented a new and Improved Lint-Floor, of which the following is a specification:

My improved lint-floor consists of small, round, or other shaped poles, bars, or rods, of small size, arranged with little spaces between, and on joists sufficiently wide to spring a little by the weight of persons walking on the floor-the object being to allow the dust which settles down to the floor to escape, and thus avoid soiling some of the cotton which comes in contact with the floor, which is sometimes a matter of important injury to the owner, as the sample for selling the lot may happen to be taken from the soiled part without being known, which will cause the cotton to be rated lower than it should be.

Figure l is a sectional elevation of my improved floor, taken on the line a: w of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a section taken on the line yy of Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A represents round poles, laid a little distance apart on joists B, which I pr pose to arrange sufficiently far apart to allow the floor to spring a little under the weight of a person walking over it. The poles may be fastened in any way. However clean the cotton may be, there will always be sufficient dust to fall down and collect on the ordinary plank floor to soil some of the. cotton, which is liable to be drawn for sample by which to represent the goods in market; but with this kind of floor, the dust so settling down will escape and leave the cotton clean.

- Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- A lint-room floor made of round elastic poles, attached at slight intervals to round joists, as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN NEWTON STITT. 

